document.write( "Question 394114: A baseball team played 141 complete games last season. They had 13 fewer wins than losses. How many games did the team win?\r
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document.write( "x = games won\r
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document.write( "13 + x = 141\r
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document.write( "x = 128\r
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document.write( "I am completely lost! Am I even on the right track.
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document.write( "Thanks for your help.\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #279725 by TeishaRenee(14)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! --------------------------------------------------\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "okay so what you need to do for a kind of guess and check solution would be to divide 141 by 2. \n" ); document.write( "141/2=70.5 \n" ); document.write( "so lets say that they won 70 and lost 71 so then you need to figure out how you can have 13 fewer wins than losses. \n" ); document.write( "so \n" ); document.write( "70 and 71 difference of 1 \n" ); document.write( "69 and 72 difference of 3 \n" ); document.write( "68 and 73 difference of 5 \n" ); document.write( "67 and 74 difference of 7 \n" ); document.write( "66 and 75 difference of 9 \n" ); document.write( "65 and 76 difference of 11 \n" ); document.write( "64 and 77 difference of 13 \n" ); document.write( "so that would mean that they won 64 games and lost 77 games. \n" ); document.write( "77-64=13 \n" ); document.write( "i know its not the right way to get the answer, its just guess and check but i still got the answer for you. lol \n" ); document.write( " |